Yup I listened to it but I hardly seen any more proof of facts from her then I have seen elsewhere, It is MSNBC hardly anymore unbiased then Fox news. But it seems since it backs up your opinion so you state it is all fact.
The fact is there is reason for the Republicans, Democrats and American public have good reason to be suspicious of his empty promises once again. But the fact that he waited 3 years to announce it and right while the campaign for re election is running at full steam I also question wether he will actually do anything or not. At any rate I posted this earlier but in case it got missed it fits this thread perfectly IMO If I am allowed it. I also posted facts before that the imigration deportation numbers he claims are true are bullshit but I am sure that got overlooked as well because no one commented since I posted it.
Obama Pledged to Streamline Gov’t Several Times Since Becoming Presidential Candidate
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s election year pledge to end duplication and redundancy in the federal government is itself a redundant pledge, one made several times since becoming a candidate for president.
In a White House announcement Friday, Obama requested Congress grant him more authority to merge federal agencies, saying, “Let me be clear, I will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service, and a leaner government.”
But over the years, Obama has included lines in speeches such as a vow to “cut waste and bureaucracy and consolidate and collapse more than 100 different programs.”
In a news release, the Republican National Committee mocked the proposal. “Obama has said he’d reorganize, streamline, reduce government programs for only the past four years and even with a Democrat Congress, actually did nothing,” the RNC release said.
At a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis., on Sept. 22, 2008, Sen. Obama said, “As president, I will go through the entire federal budget, page by page, line by line, and I will eliminate the programs that don’t work and aren’t needed. As for the programs we do need, I will make them work better and cost less.
“I will create a high-performance team that evaluates every agency and every office based on how well they’re serving the American taxpayer,” the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee said.
“We will fire government managers who aren’t getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money, and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government – because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy,” Obama
added.
Just over a month into office, Obama pledged to go line-by-line through the federal budget and pick apart wasteful programs. He cited the Department of Agriculture’s savings as an example.
“We will replicate these efforts throughout the federal government, eliminating programs that don’t work to make room for ones that do and making the ones that we keep work better,” Obama
said at the White House Fiscal Responsibility Summit on Feb. 23, 2009.
Since taking office, Obama signed into law the near-$1 trillion Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, which mandates that individuals buy and employers provide government-approved health insurance plans.
The president also signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that among other things created a new agency, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Without congressional consent, Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency imposed new fuel efficiency standards of automakers.
On Sept. 16, 2010 in Milwaukee, Wis., Obama pledged to reorganize government again.
“We want to cut waste and bureaucracy and consolidate and collapse more than 100 different programs that too often duplicate each other,” Obama
said. “So we want to change the way Washington spends your tax dollars. We want to reform a haphazard, patchwork way of doing business. We want to focus on less wasteful approaches than we’ve got right now.”
During last year’s State of the Union Address, delivered on Jan. 25, 2011, Obama again asserted the need to streamline federal programs.
“In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitive America,” Obama
said. “I will submit that proposal to Congress for a vote - and we will push to get it passed.”
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